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“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.”

Thinking Mind Country Truth Reading Materials Citizens Fellows

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Wells Important Materials Important Things Convinced

Author:Mo Rocca

“I think people assume I only do light things because of the movies that are like 'Hairspray' and 'John Tucker Must Die.' But I think it's all just based on material that I really like and that speaks to me.”

People Thinking Light Dies Speak Materials Assuming Hairspray

Author:Brittany Snow

“Well, I think it can be quite helpful to be working on a character who actually existed, historically. Of course, you might have material to study and help you create the character.”

Thinking Wells Character Helping Might Courses Study Materials Helpful

Author:Gaspard Ulliel

“Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.”

Thinking Motivational Wealth Materials Source Achievement Discovery Gains Originals Invention New Discoveries Original Thought Discovery And Invention

Book:Magic of Believing

Source: Magic of Believing

“I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.”

Thinking Humans Use Age Building Materials Capable Edges Surface Convinced Human Life Dull Scratches Richness Polished Absorbing

Book:Peter Zumthor

Source: Peter Zumthor

“MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual integrity and depth. Rarely have I come across curriculum so useful in helping students become literate, thinking citizens. Bravo.”

Thinking Writing Helping Teaching Students Materials Citizens Integrity Intellectual Depth Curriculum Teaching Students Bravo

Author:Sam Wineburg

“I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Happens Stuff Materials Down And Notes Phones Come Up Always Thinking

Author:Wanda Sykes

“I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words, with material from my own life. I walk through life with my camera, and occasionally I film. I never think about scripts, never think about films, making films.”

Thinking Has Beens Film Form My Own Walks Materials Cameras Scripts Cinema My Own Life

Author:Jonas Mekas

“I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.”

Thinking Knows Use Age Used Artist House Materials Computer Paint Incredibles Oil Command Range Household Items Computer Systems Pollock

Author:Bill Viola

“High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.”

Thinking Materials Worship Complicated Speed Consumerism Overconsumption Inconsistent High Speed

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old by giving the new slaves the illusion that they are free. The Economy does not take people's freedom by force, which would be against its principles, for it is very humane. It buys their freedom, pays for it, and then persuades its money back again with shoddy goods and the promise of freedom. "Buy a car," it says, "and be free. Buy a boat and be free." Is this not the raw material of bad dreams? Or is it maybe the very nightmare itself?”

Source: Jayber Crow: A Novel

“I think some of the most creative work is coming out of television. I felt it's very immediate and I like that. It's really fast. It's got a pace to it, and that's why I think everybody in my field wants to just do good material.”

Thinking Want Felt Creative Fields Television Materials Pace Coming Out Creative Work

Author:Charlize Theron

“Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.”

Thinking May Art Ideas Form Belief Attitude Materials Impact Endure Arise

Book:Ben Shahn: Paintings and Graphics : [exhibition] Santa Barbara Museum of Art, July 30, 1967-September 10, 1967; La Jolla Museum of Art, October 5, 1967-November 12, 1967 ; Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, December 3, 1967-January 3, 1968

Source: Ben Shahn: Paintings and Graphics : [exhibition] Santa Barbara Museum of Art, July 30, 1967-September 10, 1967; La Jolla Museum of Art, October 5, 1967-November 12, 1967 ; Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, December 3, 1967-January 3, 1968

“I don't think there's anything really wrong with influence because I think that one can use another man's art as material either literally or just implying that they're doing that, without it representing a lack of a point of view.”

Thinking Men Art Use Views Influence Materials Point Of View Another Man Representing Implying

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative terms - the fact that some people lack those things which others in society take for granted.”

People Thinking Needs Facts Past Used Term Poverty Materials Absolutes Granted Relative Straightforward Deprivation

Author:David Cameron

“Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome.”

Thinking Real Opportunity Wealth Effort Poverty Materials Achievement Overcoming Mere Acknowledge Disgrace

Book:The History of the Peloponnesian War

Source: The History of the Peloponnesian War

“I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.”

Thinking Feels Book Facts Actors Successful Five Materials Movie Slaughterhouses Slaughterhouse Five Slaughter House Five

Author:Jerry Garcia

“I feel terrible about corporate greed. Growing up in a household that was a little more humble and didn't put so much emphasis on money and material goods, I think I have a pretty good head on my shoulders.”

Thinking Feels Littles Growing Up Growing Materials Terrible Greed Humble Shoulders Corporate Goods Household Emphasis Corporate Greed

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“Steel is such a nice material to use. It can move. It's terribly easy, you just stick it or you cut it off, and bang! you're there: it's so direct. I think Manet was very direct, he didn't prepare his canvases like Courbet, he just put paint straight on and it's very like that with steel.”

Thinking Use Moving Easy Nice Cutting Materials Direct Sticks Paint Steel Bangs

Author:Anthony Caro

“I know what its like to direct. You become a more considerate actor. After you have directed, you understand what is going on. You can't help but think of the material as a director. You do come up with suggestions. You come up with shortcuts that you weren't aware of before. You try to be helpful to the director if he has a lot on his hands.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Helping Hands Actors Materials Directors Direct Come Up Helpful Suggestions Shortcuts Considerate

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from the material world; women, by their nature, were supposedly rooted in this latter, baser realm.”

Thinking World Numbers Materials Tasks Mathematics Realms Latter Rooted Masculine Transcendence Systems Thinking Material World

Author:Margaret Wertheim

“All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier far than they who wield material sceptres.”

Thinking Materials Weak Empires Thinker Thrones

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“When you advance a frontier, you're doing something that no one has done before. Every time that happens, you have to innovate. You have to think in new ways that hadn't been thought before. You have to invent a new piece of hardware, a new concept, a new law of physics, a new material, a new construction material to enable you to accomplish what it is that you chose to reach for by dreaming about tomorrow.”

Thinking Way Done Dream Happens Law Pieces Materials Tomorrow Concepts Accomplish Physics Construction New Ways Frontiers Hardware Laws Of Physics

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The Sketchnote Handbook is neither about sketching nor is it about note taking. It's about receiving and processing the world in a more complete and insightful way. It's a software upgrade for your brain. For those who've been shamed into thinking that drawing is either beyond them or beneath them, this book offers a whole new way of mastering the daily onslaught of information and turning it into raw material for discovery. (For those of us who've done this all our lives, the book provides a beautifully conceived and lovingly illustrated treat, and a great gift for our left-brained friends.)”

“It's not true that you should first think up an idea for a better world and only then "put it into practice," but, rather, through the fact of your existence in the world, you create the idea or manifest it - create it, as it were, from the "material of the world," articulate it in the "language of the world."”

Thinking World Should Firsts Ideas Facts Language Existence Practice Materials Manifest

Author:Vaclav Havel

“I grew up in the 1920s and 1930s in a nouveau riche world, where money was spent wildly, and I'm still living in one!... The private schools are all jammed with long waiting lists; the clubs -- all the old clubs -- are jammed with long waiting lists today; the harbors are clogged with yachts; there has never been a more material society than the one we live in today.... Where is this 'vanished world' they talk about? I don't think the critics have looked out the window!”

Thinking World Long Stills Today School Waiting Materials Grew Grew Up Window Critics Clubs Lists Harbors 1930s Yacht Private School Nouveau Riche

Author:Louis Auchincloss

“I think each album does have a different energy, otherwise you'd be doing the same thing again and not experimenting anew... Albums are such autobiographical material, not in the material but as an expression of what you're like at the time.”

Thinking Doe Different Energy Expression Materials Albums

Author:Kate Bush

“We already have the material means to eradicate deep poverty and thereby eradicate hunger. We have the material means to begin the tremendous clean up of the environmental messes we’ve created. We have, I believe, the psychological, emotional and spiritual means to create a world without war. We have the material means to create a world in which unnecessary human suffering has been drastically diminished. My vision for the future is that we do those things. And I think we will.”

“I get the greatest joy from just doing anything, being an actor. Doing music, and doing what I love to do. I don't make a huge distinction between comedy and drama. I think the whole point is just trying to be as honest, from moment to moment, as you can be. If you're honest about the material, and the material is ridiculous, then you're in a comedy.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Whole Moments Joy Actors Comedy Honest Materials Huge Drama Ridiculous Distinction

Author:John C. Reilly

“Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a field where language, thought and vision act upon one another. There it changed form through a complex interplay of new mental and physical materials, heralding many of the technical, mental and visual details to be found in more recent art... He declared that he wanted to kill art ("for myself") but his persistent attempts to destroy frames of reference altered our thinking, established new units of thought, a "new thought for that object."”

“I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and fantasy, and I really don't think about these things when I'm writing. I'm just thinking about telling a story and developing my characters.”

Thinking Writing Mean Character Stories Fiction Fantasy Materials Periods Science Fiction Developing Novelists Science Fiction And Fantasy

Author:Roger Zelazny

“Doing the same things you did when the economy was good is not good enough. You will have to put more coals on the fire in a poor economy to get the same heat you received in a good economy. You must give more energy, more thought, more service, and get into positive thinking material more frequently. Become more selective about who you spend time with. Love a little more, hate a little less. Think about it. You can progressively move on an upward path toward any goal. The choice is yours as to who or what controls you!”

Thinking Giving Littles Enough Moving Hate Choices Energy Goal Poor Economy Path Fire Positive Thinking Materials Heat Good Enough End Times Coal Spend Time Not Good Enough Selective

Author:Bob Proctor

“If an artist and a scientist have a common point, it is probably in the need for some kind of imaginative thinking to interpret the material they have.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Kind Artist Common Materials Scientist Profession Imaginative

Author:Catherine Yass

“The branches of mathematics are as various as the sciences to which they belong, and each subject of physical enquiry has its appropriate mathematics. In every form of material manifestation, there is a corresponding form of human thought, so that the human mind is as wide in its range of thought as the physical universe in which it thinks.”

Thinking Mind Humans Form Universe Subjects Materials Mathematics Various Wide Range Manifestation Branches Appropriate Human Mind Corresponding Human Thought Enquiry

Author:Benjamin Peirce

“A huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair.”

Thinking Television Materials Huge Locals Owners Stations Unfair Feeding Marketplace Copyright Parasites Fattening

Author:Jack Valenti

“I don't think people should be primarily concerned with money or material success. They should be concerned with doing that which is right and being in harmony with the way of life.”

People Thinking Way Should Materials Concerned Harmony Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you think that material success will bring you happiness, relationships, people, places, things, fame, fortune, you definitely should not practice tantra.”

People Ifs Thinking Should Philosophy Practice Materials Fame Fortune Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Two people can be work at the same job, side by side. One person is working just for a paycheck. Another is working to perfect their being. Some people think that the material world will make them happy.”

People Thinking World Persons Two Jobs Success Sides Perfect Careers Materials Buddhism Paychecks Material World

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I'm a thespian. I don't like to improv. I don't like to go off course 'cause I think that's where stuff happens. When you stick to the material 'cause it's written so well, that's where the magic happens.”

Thinking Wells Happens Courses Causes Stuff Written Magic Materials Sticks Stuff Happens Thespians

Author:Regina Hall

“I've never changed my approach to acting. I've always felt like I've gotten better. I think that all of us can get better. I feel like, in my acting, I'm better than I was three pictures ago. I think about it. I'm a slow study. It takes me a long time to grasp the material, in order to perform it. But when I come to the set, on the first day, I know the whole movie. That's why I have to start early.”

Thinking Knows Feels Firsts Long Whole Order Three Felt Acting Study Changed Materials Approach Long Time Get Better Take Me Never Change

Author:Kevin Costner

“Performance is made in the editing room, and I've come to see the truth in that - the idea that they say performances are usually made in the editing room because what you film is the raw material. I think just going through the process of saying, "Which take do we use? Why is that the take we want? I want that take can you edit again, I'm not sure that's the one, I think it's this one." And just because you go through that process, I think somehow it's made me sort of more open about the [actor's] possibilities.”

Thinking Want Made Ideas Use Film Actors Process Rooms Possibility Materials Performances Not Sure Editing Edits Raw Materials

Author:Ralph Fiennes

“I think the best way to become a character is by osmosis as opposed to thinking directly about stuff. The more material that you have and understand and have a going in, then the more complex your character and the understanding of your character will be.”

Thinking Way Character Stuff Understanding Materials Complexes Best Way Osmosis

Author:Shailene Woodley

“It takes so long to write a script, thinking to yourself, "Am I wasting my time? Am I putting everything into this thing that maybe just won't ever exist?" I always think, God, acting is so much easier. At least for acting you have the source material already.”

Thinking Writing Long Acting Materials Source Easier Scripts My Time Wasting My Time

Author:Jason Schwartzman

“I had to learn a skill set. I think I had the materials to be a good comedy writer.”

Thinking Comedy Materials Skills

Author:Mindy Kaling

“I think the best way for me to go into auditions psychologically was to say, 'You're not going to get it. This is the only acting experience you're going to have with this material.'”

Thinking Way Acting Materials Best Way Auditions

Author:Janel Moloney

“What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.”

Thinking Trying Materials Source Former Primaries Librarian Primary Source

Author:Theresa Breslin

“I don't think an NC-17 rating is the kiss of death. Nor do I think that, in the hands of the right filmmakers, studios have a preconceived notion to pass on NC-17 material.”

Thinking Hands Materials Kissing Notion Studios Filmmaker Rating Preconceived Notions Kiss Of Death

Author:Steve Tisch

“No, I most certainly do not think advertising people are wonderful. I think they are horrible, and the worst menace to mankind, next to war; perhaps ahead of war. They stand for the material viewpoint, for the importance of possessions, of desire, of envy, of greed. And war comes from these things.”

People Thinking War Desire Next Wonderful Worst Mankind Materials Importance Greed Possession Envy Horrible Advertising Viewpoints Menace

Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“In general, I feel, or I have come to feel, that the richest writing comes not from the people who dedicate themselves to writing alone. I know this is contradicted again and again but I continue to feel it. They don't, of course, write as much, or as fast, but I think it is riper and more satisfying when it does come. One of the difficulties of writing or doing any kind of creative work in America seems to me to be that we put such stress on production and material results. We put a time pressure and a mass pressure on creative work which are meaningless and infantile in that field.”